At 9:46 PM -0500 1/4/07, Greg Rundlett wrote:
On 1/4/07, Kenneth Downs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi folks,
A helpful HTML guru has given me the solution to my height-dont-work
problem in IE 6.
The guru is.... (drumroll) Tom Melendez of LIPHP fame. He pointed out
that changing the document type declaration to "quirks" mode makes IE
work, instantly fixing the problem.
For completeness, here is a simplified snipeet that illustrates the
fixed situation:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<style>
html, body {
height: 100%;
width: 100%;
margin: 0px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<center>
<table cellspacing=0
style="width: 500px; height: 100%;">
<tr><td style="height: 100px" bgcolor=red>a </td></tr>
<tr><td>hello </td></tr>
<tr><td style="height: 100px" bgcolor=blue>b </td></tr>
</table>
</center>
</body>
I don't mean to be picky, but if you post a 'solution' then it ought
to be or attempt to be syntactically correct. The simple snippet
above gets lazy about quoting attributes, ending semi-colons and the
type attribute is even missing from the <style> tag not to mention a
missing </html> tag. Your point is made about doctype declarations,
but the code example would lead a newbie to believe that tag soup is
acceptable to 'gurus'. All I had to do to produce the version below
was run it through tidy -im -ashtml /tmp/tmp.html
-snip-
Greg
Hi all:
In addition, I don't mean to be picky either, but the example is: a)
using a table to display other than table stuff; b) embedding css
(nothing really wrong with it other than it could be made
unobtrusive); c) placing design attributes within tags, which
certainly belong in a css file; d) and, has an incomplete DOCTYPE.
It's hard to do build something strong, when you have a poor foundation.
tedd
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